Re: background fsck service - any tools?

Lindsay Sprinter <zlinw@mcmedia.com.au> writes:

During the twenty years I have never seen one of these "scheduled" fsck's produce any errors caused by a failure in the drive or the file system. Errors have been produced a small number of times but they have been caused by externel influences [...] So in the end one could probably turn it off as has already been suggested and lose no sleep over it.

IIRC I've seen it due to dying HDDs, so I would add an erratum that if you turn off periodic fscks of ext, make sure to turn on periodic SMART checks.